Dpup Exprimo, pemasu's great puplet now has support for the CrossWire Bible Society's Linux Bibletime version 2.9.1. It already worked great with the Wine programs, Bible Analyzer, e-Sword, and theWord, now it's more complete.

Get it here.
Download the needed clucene, sword and bibletime pets. Qt4-4.8.0 libs is also required....basic or essentials are ok.

Saluki is a woof-build based on Racy with Xfce. The suggested target hardware is computers less than 5 years old. It should run tolerably fast on older machines and netbooks and older machines, but Xfce does need a bit more cpu than the standard ROX/Jwm puppy. The principle developer, jemimah is developing an amazing puplet that continues to improve. It's fast and stable and now has support for Crosswire Bible Societie's Linux Bibletime program. All that's necessary to install it is to use the Puppy Package Manager. It also runs Wine and I've found that the Windows version of Bible Analyzer, e-Sword and theWord
work well on it.

Bibletime is still the reliable 2.7.2 version that can easily be loaded using Quickpet/SFS Get, Xiphos is version 3.1.3 and is installed with the Puppy Package Manager. It also runs the wonderful Windows programs that run under Wine, Bible Analysis, e-Sword, and theWord. green_dome's latest wine-1.4 works great for these.

Because I frequently test various alpha and beta programs, my Wine installation sees a lot of changes including testing each update to Wine. As a result, I have found that some features of my favorite Windows programs, Bible Analyzer 4, e-Sword, and theWord, all of which have updates also do not work.

To correct this situation I started out with a new installation of Slacko and reinstalled Wine and my favorite programs. The results have been very pleasing, for example in e-Sword, the latest version which has a Download Module feature which did not work now works great (important because update links to download additional modules are no longer available), also theWord doesn't freeze up.

If you are having problems with your installed programs, this may correct your problem.
There have been many improvements in Wine and green_dome's latest wine-1.4 works great and may solve your problem. Note: eSword installation is now much easier.

To save space in the save files and make Wine available to frugal installation of various pups, my Wine installation is moved to /mnt/home. This procedure is very simple and does not uninstall Wine.

1. Copy /root/.wine to /mnt/home/
2. Delete /root/.wine
3. Place a symlink in /root/ to /mnt/home/.wine

To make the installation available in another pup, Wine must be installed, then delete /root/.wine and make a symlink to /mnt/home/.wine. With a full installation, the symlink would be to /mnt/sxxx/.wine where the .wine file is located.

Saluki now has a release candidate. Jerimah has included Bibletime 2.9.1 that is available through the Puppy Package Manager. Also it works well with Windows Bible programs (Bible Analyzer, e-Sword, & the Word) running under the latest Wine pet. Numerous other programs are available to make it a powerful contender to build your own Bible Study System.

01micko has also provided Bibletime-2.9.1s which may be installed using the PPM so it picks up all dependencies. Recommend that for now you use ibiblio for everything but clucene which you need to get from another mirror.

FATSlacko makes a super Bible study system. As seen on the attached image, it also runs favorite Windows programs under Wine: Bible Analyzer, e-Sword, and the Word.

Kirk and Jamesbond have released their latest Fatdog64-600 which is extremely fast and supports the latest linux Bibletime as well as Windows programs Bible Analyzer, e-Sword, and theWord. If you have 64-bit hardware, give this a try. It's the best available and there is a good selection of software available for it.

Try it, you will love it.

Thanks again to Kirk and Jamesbond for providing such great support for Bibletime and other Bible study software.

Barry has released his latest Precise which supports the latest Linux Bibletime and Xiphos plus Windows eSword, Bible Analyzer, and theWord running with Wine. You can build a very powerful Bible Study program with this latest distribution.

Kirk and Jamesbond have released their latest Fatdog64-610 which makes a great base for a Bible study OS for those that have a modern 64-bit system.

Included is Bibletime 2.9.1 installed using the Fatdog64 Package Manager. Also the Windows programs Bible Analyzer, eSword, and theWord also work fine under wine.

Installation tips.
1. Bibletime--
(a) Goto Menu, select Setup/Fatdog64 Control Panel
(b) In Fatdog64 Control Panel, select System/Fatdog64 Package Manager
(c) In Fatdog64 Package Manager, select Available Packages and scroll down to Personal, then Mark bibletime, and agree to also install the recommended dependencies. Then click on Install.
Note: After installation is complete, you must reboot to activate the necessary QT libs. If you want to drag the Bibletime.desktop application to your desktop, it's located at /usr/local/share/applications.

2. Wine and Windows Programs--
(a) Using your browser, goto Fatdog64 and select "Click here for SFS files", download /fatdog/sfs/600/32bit-slacko-1.sfs and move it to /mnt/home, then go to Fatdog64 Control Panel/System SFS Loader and choose the sfs file to load during boot. This provides you with the necessary 32bit libs to run Wine.
(b) Download and install latest Wine.
(c) Download and install the latest desired Windows programs ie: Bible Analyzer 4.6, eSword 10.01.0, or theWord 4.. Just double click on the exe file to install it. After installation, select and install the desired extra modules. Note: Attached pet files below provide the necessary .desktop files to assure that the program show properly in the menu.

Pemasu's latest Upup Precise is a fine distribution that runs all 5 Bible Programs, Bibletime and Xiphos for Linux; and Bible Analyzer, eSword, and theWord for Windows running under Wine. Thank you Pemasu.